Learn to build your own cabin cheaply and sustainably and learn about the green building benefits of sustainable, green-living homes. In 2013, I was living in a large city, but I felt it was time to ...

Learn how to build a cabin in the wilderness by watching the wind and light rotate through the property and following a cabin build from conception to completion. Long before I used string on stakes ...

Josh Drinkard always wanted to build his own cabin. Growing up in suburban New Jersey, he’d wander to a small strip of woods near his childhood home and spend hours constructing forts and treehouses.

Snow loads, –30 °C nights, and humid summer heatwaves test any cabin. A prefab kit that thrives in those extremes starts with a super-tight shell: thick wall assemblies, continuous insulation, and ...

From October into November, my wife and I—and our two dogs—drove from New Mexico to Vermont to turn our unfinished 12-by-12 log cabin into a little off-grid home. We transformed it from the empty ...